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Definition: Temporary Worker |
Temporary WorkerNoun1. A worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Immigration | An alien coming to the United States to work for a temporary period of time. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and the Immigration Act of 1990, as well as other legislation, revised existing classes and created new classes of nonimmigrant admission. Nonimmigrant temporary worker classes of admission are as follows: 1. H-1A registered nurses (valid from 10/1/1990 through 9/30/1995); 2. H-1B workers with "specialty occupations" admitted on the basis of professional education, skills, and/or equivalent experience; 3. H-1C registered nurses to work in areas with a shortage of health professionals under the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act of 1999; 4. H-2A temporary agricultural workers coming to the United States to perform agricultural services or labor of a temporary or seasonal nature when authorized workers are unavailable in the United States; 5. H-2B temporary non-agricultural workers coming to the United States to perform temporary services or labor if unemployed persons capable of performing the service or labor cannot be found in the United States; 6. H-3 aliens coming temporarily to the United States as trainees, other than to receive graduate medical education or training; 7. O-1, O-2, O-3 temporary workers with extraordinary ability or achievement in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics; those entering solely for the purpose of accompanying and assisting such workers; and their spouses and children; 8. P-1, P-2, P-3, P-4 athletes and entertainers at an internationally recognized level of performance; artists and entertainers under a reciprocal exchange program; artists and entertainers under a program that is "culturally unique"; and their spouses and children; 9. Q-1, Q-2, Q-3 participants in international cultural exchange programs; participants in the Irish Peace Process Cultural and Training Program; and spouses and children of Irish Peace Process participants; 10. R-1, R-2 temporary workers to perform work in religious occupations and their spouses and children.See other sections of this Glossary for definitions of Exchange Visitor, Intracompany Transferee, and U.S.-Canada or North American Free-Trade Agreement classes of nonimmigrant admission. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Temporary WorkerSynonym: temp (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Temporary Worker |
| English words defined with "temporary worker": temp. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "temporary worker": ENGINEER-IN-CHARGE, TRANSMITTER ♦ Industrial Trainee ♦ SCHOOL SECRETARY. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
temporary worker | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "temporary worker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
French | employé intérimaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | hilfskraft (assistant, helper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 臨時工 , テロ対策 (10, 99.99999999%, anti-terrorist, temper, tempera, temperament, temperate, tempo, temporary, temptation, tempura, ten, ten key, ten nines, tendency, tenderloin, tenderloin steak, ten-gallon hat, tense, tension, tension people, tensor, tent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | テンポラリーワーカー , り"じ"う. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emporarytay orkerway trabalhador temporário (jumper, transient worker). (various references) trabajador temporario. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-k-m-o-o-p-r-r-r-r-t-w-y" | |
-5 letters: prokaryote. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6D 70 6F 72 61 72 79 57 6F 72 6B 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101101 01110000 01101111 01110010 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01010111 01101111 01110010 01101011 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e m p o r a r y   W o r k e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006D 0070 006F 0072 0061 0072 0079 0057 006F 0072 006B 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5471798281846784912578184777184 |
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